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LIFE09200604007 Tabish - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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Discussion<br />

stimulated lymphocytes which consists mainly of T cell population. A variation in<br />

carcinogen sensitivity mainly to γ-radiation between B-lymphocytes compared to T-<br />

lymphocytes has been reported 208, 209 . Moreover, differences in the mutagenic response<br />

can occur as LCL are exposed in the G1/S/G2 phase of the cell cycle as they are<br />

continuously proliferating and undergo continuous cell division; whereas stimulated T<br />

lymphocytes remain quiescent. Difference in the efficiency of pathways, owing to<br />

differential expression of genes, activated on genotoxic exposure in quiescent and<br />

proliferating lymphocytes are known to contribute to the dissimilar sensitivity 210, 211 .<br />

Furthermore the type of assay used to compare the sensitivity of LCL with lymphocytes<br />

can also give rise to variation due to varied sensitivity of the assays 78 . Therefore care<br />

must be taken to ascertain the suitability of using LCL in certain experiments and<br />

selecting the type of assay.<br />

Despite the studies where the utility of LCL in place of isolated lymphocytes<br />

has been shown to be compromised, there are reports which provide evidence for the<br />

relevance of their use in biological research. Talebizadeh et al. 212 have assessed the<br />

feasibility of using LCL to study the role of miRNAs in the etiology of autism. To test<br />

for genotypic errors potentially caused by EBV transformation, Herbeck et al. 213<br />

compared SNP using Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 500k array set, in<br />

peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and LCL from the same individuals.<br />

They reported that genotypic changes found in PBMCs and LCLs were not<br />

significantly different and hence LCL constitute a reliable DNA source for host<br />

genotype analysis. Whole-exome sequencing of DNA from PBMCs and EBV<br />

transformed lymphocytes from the same donor demonstrated that there occur very<br />

minor changes in EBV LCL and that too at a higher population doubling, thus<br />

providing evidence that LCL are an appropriate representation of the donor 214 .<br />

LCLs as an in vitro model<br />

Comparison and characterisation of representative EBV LCLs generated in<br />

our study with the respective parent lymphocytes revealed comparable genotypic and<br />

phenotypic characteristics in terms of DNA ploidy, population doubling time,<br />

expression and activity of ATM gene and cell surface markers. Apart from this, using<br />

LCLs generated as a part of previous study in the lab, a comparison was done for the<br />

genotype of genes including GSTT1 and GSTM1 between DNA isolated from LCLs<br />

and respective PBLs. No difference in the genotype of parent lymphocyte and<br />

137

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